Marjorie Bagshaw will remember nephew Tommy's hugs.

"A week before he died, he came in the house and gave me a big hug, when he hugged you it was like being hugged by a teddy bear," the 65-year-old Coventry woman recalled. "I never saw him without a smile on his face."

Barnett, 38, was born in Warwick and attended North Kingstown and Coventry high schools. Fun-loving and always ready with a joke, the West Greenwich resident was also an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed fishing and deer hunting.

He worked as a self-employed construction worker for 20 years.

Barnett went to The Station the night of the fire with his girlfriend, Jessica Studley, and his best friend since kindergarten, Jason Morton.

Bagshaw said Studley went to the parking lot that night to get cigarettes from a car.

"When she turned around the building was already gone," Bagshaw said.

Morton was also killed.

"He died with his lifelong friend," Bagshaw said. "It was like a double whammy for us."